649 Quotes by H. G. Wells

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

Losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel.

Rest enough for the individual man, too much and too soon, and we call it death. But for man, no rest and no ending. He must go on, conquest beyond conquest. First this little planet and all its winds and ways, and then all the laws of mind and matter that restrain him. Then the planets about him, and, at last, out across immensities to the stars. And when he has conquered all the deep space, and all the mysteries of time, still he will be beginning.

...the voice was indisputable. It continued to swear with that breadth and variety that distinguishes the swearing of a cultivated man.

This isn't a war," said the artilleryman. "It never was a war, any more than there's war between man and ants.

It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble.

Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

No. I cannot expect you to believe it. Take it as a lie--or a prophecy. Say I dreamed it in the workshop. Consider I have been speculating upon the destinies of our race until I have hatched this fiction. Treat my assertion of its truth as a mere stroke of art to enhance its interest. And taking it as a story, what do you think of it?

Alexander the Great changed a few boundaries and killed a few men. Both he and Napoleon were forced into fame by circumstances outside of themselves and by currents of the time, but Margaret Sanger made currents and circumstances. When the history of our civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine.